Monthly Archives: October 2005

Favorite Stories From the Past Year

10/31/2005 – 4:40 pm

For kicks, I went back through my blog and took an inventory of what I’ve been reading this past year. Turns out, it’s quite a lot! Which is terrific, of course. About a year ago, I was fairly immersed in Icelandic Sagas, then hit a bunch of novels recommended by the Clarion [...]

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B-Movie Hero.

10/31/2005 – 9:19 am

Gimme some sugar baby.
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Vocabulary

10/29/2005 – 3:47 pm

I should be working on GRE vocabulary today but I’ve been distracted. Can I do two things at once?

flat·ter – to portray too favorably
Wisconsin wipes out Illinois to go to 8-1 this season. I still can’t believe the team has done that well because the defense varies from woeful to stellar [...]

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…and Gutted

10/27/2005 – 6:30 pm

Ugh.
So I queried F&SF on my story that’s been out for ninety days . . . and Gordon has no recollection of having seen it and no record of having received it. Absolutely, positively gutted.
Current Mood – Gutted, I Told You |

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Sale! (of sorts)

10/27/2005 – 3:07 pm

Mere minutes after finding out John had sold a story to Strange Horizons, I found out I’d just sold a story to Animal Magnetism Charity Anthology. All proceeds go directly to Noah’s Wish, an agency that helps rescue animals in the event of catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina.
So this isn’t a huge sale (is it [...]

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Shout Out to John!

10/27/2005 – 12:47 pm

Clarion buddy John Schoffstall sold his week 3 story from Clarion to Strange Horizons. It’s called “Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery” and the sale comes as absolutely no surprise to me. In fact, the only surprise is that it’s taken this long to sell. One of my favorite workshop stories from [...]

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The Jones

10/26/2005 – 11:25 pm

I came home tonight and wrote a 3K-word story, in its entirety, in one sitting, stopping only to take a fifteen-minute break to eat dinner.
Current Mood – Told You I Was In the Writing Mood |

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Self-Help Me

10/26/2005 – 1:31 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9819140/site/newsweek/

I saw an article on MSN’s portal site via the link “Q&A: Why self-help books aren’t so helpful.” I read it and found it totally confounded me.
Newsweek reporter Dan Brillman’s opening paragraph says, “The number of self-help books (including diet and fitness titles) in print has more than doubled since 1972 and the genre [...]

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Randomness in All Things

10/25/2005 – 10:26 pm

I’m feeling particularly scatterbrained lately. I’ve got the attention span of a three-year-old both at home and at work. I should be studying GRE vocabulary right now but I can’t bring myself to do it. I had a seven-week plan all charted about but after about ten days I figured that was [...]

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I Feel Better Already

10/22/2005 – 11:40 pm

The ExpatriateAchtung! You are 23% brainwashworthy, 31% antitolerant, and 28% blindly patriotic

Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your values and cares extend beyond the borders of your own country, and your Blind Patriotism does not reach unhealthy levels. If you had been German in the 30s, you would’ve left the country.
One bad [...]

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